'Genital profiling' – another embarrassing Freudian slip from a French politician

Just two weeks ago Rachida Dati, a French member of the European parliament, confused "inflation" with "fellatio" live on TV. Now it's Brice Hortefeux's turn. France's answer to Theresa May committed his own Freudian slip while defending his country's police force against the charge of ethnic profiling. Speaking on RTL's "Le Grand Jury", he momentarily confused "empreintes digitales" – fingerprint databases – with "empreintes génitales". Well, you don't need to be an ethnic profiler – or even a French speaker – to recognise that's something rather different.